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  2. Eddy Goldfarb - Wikipedia

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    Eddy Goldfarb (born Adolph Goldfarb; September 5, 1921) is an American toy inventor.The creator of over 800 toys, [1] he is best known for inventing Yakity Yak Talking Teeth, Battling Tops, KerPlunk, Stompers, and Vac-U-Form.

  3. Ralph H. Baer - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer.. Baer's family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.

  4. Maltesers - Wikipedia

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    Maltesers are a British confectionery product manufactured by Mars Inc. First sold in the UK in 1937, they were originally aimed at women. They have since been sold ...

  5. History of games - Wikipedia

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    The history of games dates to the ancient human past. [3] Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome ...

  6. Alexey Pajitnov - Wikipedia

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    Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]

  7. William Webb Ellis - Wikipedia

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    The claim that Webb Ellis invented the game did not surface until four years after his death, and doubts have been raised about the story since 1895 when the Old Rugbeian Society first investigated it. The sub-committee conducting the investigation was "unable to procure any first-hand evidence of the occurrence". [13]

  8. What is Euchre anyway? A brief history of this classic card game

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    Joe Andrews is the author of four card game books, and director of Grand Prix "live" card game tournaments (1999-2011). He is also a columnist for various online gaming sites.

  9. Reyn Guyer - Wikipedia

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    Developing toys and games a for example, nerf, song writing and publishing, entrepreneurship Reynolds Winsor "Reyn" Guyer (born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1935) is an American inventor . Inventions